East Asia thread

[Thomas More]

U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel says Japanese industry can play bigger role amid defense challenges

Rahm Emanuel said building up "resilience" across a number of sectors and supply chains and bolstering deterrence capabilities were crucial goals for the alliance.

www.japantimes.co.jp

Never let a crisis go to waste! I will say it is in America's interests to encourage Japan in this direction, however wrongheaded America's policies are otherwise.

 

[Virgil]

Never let a crisis go to waste! I will say it is in America's interests to encourage Japan in this direction, however wrongheaded America's policies are otherwise.

That article is full of newspeak, I can't endure reading it to the end. It's just another day of the USA forcing Japan to escalate against China + North Korea + Russia. But I never expected the neocons to sink so low as to actually consider turning Japan (and South Korea) as a possible location for a new proxy war, when Russia isn't even over with Ukraine.

It's not Americans who are gonna suffer when Seoul or Tokyo gets nuked.

 

[murphykj930]

That article is full of newspeak, I can't endure reading it to the end. It's just another day of the USA forcing Japan to escalate against China + North Korea + Russia. But I never expected the neocons to sink so low as to actually consider turning Japan (and South Korea) as a possible location for a new proxy war, when Russia isn't even over with Ukraine.

It's not Americans who are gonna suffer when Seoul or Tokyo gets nuked.

That’s basically like attacking the U.S because of all of the bases we’ve got over there, and Japan is not super friendly with any of those countries, especially China. Even South Korea barely tolerates them.

Nanjing Massacre - Wikipedia

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Comfort women - Wikipedia

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The PRC joined other Asian countries, such as South Korea and North Korea, in criticizing Japanese history textbooks that whitewash Japanese war crimes in World War II. They claimed that the rise of militarism became evident in Japanese politics. Much anti-Japanese sentiment has raised, and this has been exacerbated by burgeoning feelings of Chinese nationalism and former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine.

 

[Yeagerist]

Turns out that [South] Koreans have a special regard for the Turks due to the latter's efforts in stopping the spread of Bolshevism across the peninsula, and the adoption of many Korean war orphans in Turkey. I know that the Turks are the villain nation in the eyes of Orthobros, but gotta give due credit in fighting against a greater evil at the time.





Which was why I found it funny to see Korean netizens lately larping over the Eastern Roman Empire and Orthodoxy.

 

[murphykj930]

China says US claim it may arm Russia is 'false' – DW – 02/20/2023

The US had said China was possibly considering supplying Russia with weapons amid the war in Ukraine. But Beijing insisted it was Washington that was "endlessly shipping weapons to the battlefield."

amp.dw.com

 

[Thomas More]

China says US claim it may arm Russia is 'false' – DW – 02/20/2023

The US had said China was possibly considering supplying Russia with weapons amid the war in Ukraine. But Beijing insisted it was Washington that was "endlessly shipping weapons to the battlefield."

amp.dw.com

I don't know why China would kowtow like this.

The West are the real lethal arms suppliers! It's like soy conservatives saying the left are the real racists/sexists/whatever.

Sad!

 

[murphykj930]

Japanese people are leaving their professional careers at home to work menial jobs abroad… For better pay, and with less hours.

 

[murphykj930]

The US Navy is in Chinas space, ready and waiting.